TARGET KILLINGS

Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are regularly attacked and murdered simply for their beliefs.

Since the introduction of the Ordinance XX in Pakistan hundreds have been killed in cold blood and no one has ever been prosecuted for these murders. As a result millions live in fear every day in Pakistan.

DESECRATION OF MOSQUES

For 30 years Ahmadis have been denied the right to worship. Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadi laws make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to call their

places of worship a mosque. This law has been used to justify attacks on mosques and has also been used by authorities to close mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. It has also been used to deface mosques and police have removed the Islamic declaration of faith (Kalima) from Ahmadi mosques.

This is a clear a denial of religious freedom and these laws have directly resulted in more than 80 mosques across Pakistan being demolished, sealed and their minarets torn down.

This also impacts on the wider community as mosques serve not only as religious centres but also as

social and community centres.

GRAVES DESECRATED

Pakistan’s laws have been used to justify the desecration of Ahmadi graves to the extent that the gravestone of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate,
Prof Abdus Salam, has been defaced to remove the word ‘Muslim’ solely because he was an Ahmadi Muslim.

Ahmadis have also been refused the right to bury their loved-ones in Muslim graveyards and Ahmadi graveyards have been attacked to destroy gravestones simply because they featured Quranic inscriptions. For Ahmadis in Pakistan there is no dignity even after death.

VOTING RIGHTS DENIED

Voting Rights Denied: Ahmadi Muslims were denied voting rights in the national and local elections that took place in Pakistan in 2013. This was highlighted by the EU Election Observation Mission to Pakistan (2013). Whilst other minorities have been removed from the separate electoral roll, this has not been the case for Ahmadi Muslims. As such, Ahmadi Muslims now remain the only disenfranchised group in Pakistan.